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Epylon Further Improves Public Sector’s eProcurement and Sourcing Process with MicroStrategy

McLEAN, Va., December 7, 2001 — MicroStrategy® Incorporated (NASDAQ: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence software, today announced that Epylon Corporation, a leading provider of eProcurement solutions for government and education institutions, is using MicroStrategy software to deliver business intelligence solutions that support eProcurement in the public sector. Based on the MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Platform™, Epylon analytics are designed to enable public sector organizations, such as state governments, transit authorities and school districts, to effectively evaluate their procurement processes and boost efficiency.

“We selected MicroStrategy for Epylon analytics because of its completely Web-based and flexible architecture,” said Shiva Rajaraman, senior product manager at Epylon. “MicroStrategy has allowed us to tailor our procurement solution to fit the public sector’s rigorous reporting requirements. Epylon analytics leverage MicroStrategy’s analytical functionality to provide insight into trends, policy objectives and opportunities for process improvement.”

Performance reporting and analysis capabilities allow public sector organizations to analyze procurement and sourcing data to gain a better understanding of spending trends and eProcurement adoption. With Epylon’s MicroStrategy-based technology, these organizations are also able to delve into detailed data to discover inefficiencies in their purchasing processes.

About Epylon

Epylon Corporation, an Accenture affiliate company, is a leading provider of eProcurement software and services for government and education institutions. Epylon provides tailored procurement product extensions and services designed around the public sector’s unique operating environment.

Epylon's tailored public sector procurement extensions, coupled with a standard procurement software package, deliver a full service eProcurement solution for the public sector. Epylon’s public sector procurement extensions include value-added products and services such as eQuote, supplier adoption and enablement, hosting, data services, supplier portal, customer service, training, reporting and integration.

The Epylon Supplier Network is a national aggregated base of more than 3,000 suppliers such as Compaq, Office Depot, Grainger, IBM, Boise Cascade, Xerox, and Wesco. Participation in the Epylon Supplier Network provides suppliers of all sizes with access to a national audience of public sector buyers and the opportunity to expand market share. Epylon also enables suppliers to receive standardized electronic orders, manage complex bidding opportunities and reduce the overall cost of sales.

About MicroStrategy Incorporated.

Leadership in a Critical Market: Founded in 1989, MicroStrategy is a worldwide leader in the critical business intelligence software market. Large and small companies alike are harnessing MicroStrategy’s business intelligence software to gain vital insights from their data to help them proactively enhance cost-efficiency, productivity and customer relations and optimize revenue-generating strategies. MicroStrategy's business intelligence platform offers exceptional capabilities that provide organizations -- in virtually all facets of their operations -- with user-friendly solutions to their data query, reporting, and advanced analytical needs, and distributes valuable insight on this data to users via Web, wireless, and voice. PC Magazine recently selected MicroStrategy 7™ as the 2001 “Editors' Choice” for business intelligence software.

Built for the Internet: MicroStrategy 7 is the Scalable Business Intelligence Platform Built for the Internet™. Its pure-Web architecture provides Web reporting, security, performance and standards that are critical for Web deployment. Within intranets, MicroStrategy's products provide employees with information to enable them to make better, more cost-effective business decisions. In extranets, enterprises can use MicroStrategy 7 to build stronger relationships by linking customers and suppliers via the Internet.

Diverse Customer Base: MicroStrategy's customer base cuts across industry and sector lines, with approximately 1,500 enterprise-class customers, including Lowe's Home Improvement Warehouse, AT&T Wireless Group, Wachovia and GlaxoSmithKline. MicroStrategy also has relationships with over 400 systems integrators and application development and platform partners, including IBM, PeopleSoft, Compaq, Informatica and JD Edwards.

MicroStrategy is listed on Nasdaq under the symbol MSTR. For more information on the company, or to purchase or demo MicroStrategy's software, please visit MicroStrategy's Web site at http://www.microstrategy.com.

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